562 Life and Letters of Francis Galton 



[In Evelyne Biggs' handwriting.] 



I should like to read the Fogazzaro, also the book on Naples, but I find as a rule I can't read 

 Serao's writings. Just begun Pecheur d'Islaiide, it is very charming in spite of being French ! 



This place is most paintable, the Basque buildings are delightfully irregular and no street 

 is at right angles, or rather the houses in it aren't and that makes it so interesting. I think 

 we've got the tunnel murderer in this hotel ! Lucky we are just moving ! E. B. 



Address 42, Rutland Gate, "please forward." February 3, 1906. 

 Dear Schuster, At length, after a scarcely pardonable delay, I have had a good go at your 

 paper. (1) Take great pains to describe the Subjects' doings in terse and forcible language. It 

 is a most difficult task, so it would be well to be in touch with some classical or literary friends 

 to criticise helpfully. An epitaph is a work of art ; the late Lord Houghton was frequently 

 appealed to to compose them for public characters, and these are like epitaphs. I have pencilled 

 suggestions of my own. 



(2) About the appendix to each family, such as that to the Freres, which please look at for 

 explanation, it will of course be printed in smaller type. I think that the Subjects, as (fa fa + 

 bro sis), had better be the bracketed entries, and their brothers and sisters or sons and 

 daughters be separate, thus : 



{fa fa + bro sis) 2 bros, 3 sis || (subjects + bro sis) 3 bros, sis |[ etc. 



Think this over and do what you then think best, for it will be your book. 



(3) In the Butler family you have tried bro a , bro,,, etc. instead of bro l7 bro 2 , etc. I like the 

 numerals best. It would hardly do to combine the notations as bro c son 3 , because, however 

 well it might look in one pedigree, the term bro c might appear as bro 3 in another, as applied 

 to the same person, which would puzzle. You have taken great pains with these families. 



I have been twice in correspondence with Murray, first in regard to whether the book was to 

 be one of the University of London Series, he replying that he understood not. I referred this and 

 him to Hartog, to whom I also wrote, fearing to make some technical blunder ; Hartog sug- 

 gested at least the University arms. The second was yesterday in reply to half a dozen sample 

 covers of diffused hues, all printed alike and with the arms. I suggested the addition of the words 

 " modern science," which no doubt he will put in if he gets my answer in time. Otherwise there 

 would be nothing on the cover of the book (though there is in the title-page) to distinguish it 

 from forthcoming volumes of the same kind. The cover looks uncommonly well and suitable to 

 attract attention favourably, as it lies on a table. 



I have just received an offprint of a German translation of all my Eugenics papers, inserted 

 in that excellent periodical Archiv fur Rassen- und Gesellschafts-Biologie of which I know 

 Professor Pearson has a high opinion. I have not had time yet to look at it but am sure it will 

 be done well, as the co-editor who translated it writes in excellent English. 



We are in a funny and very comfortable Basque Inn, in a village, Ascain, four or five miles 

 from St Jean de Luz. It depends upon procurable rooms whether or no we move hence to Sarre, 

 another Basque village, or possibly even go a little way into Spain. So you had better write to 

 42, Rutland Gate, "to be forwarded," if you have occasion to do so before you hear from me 

 again. Very faithfully yours, Francis Galton. 



H6tel de la Rhune, Ascain, Basses Pyrenees, France. February 8, 1906. 



Dearest Milly, Your last letter, that you wrote of on a post-card, has miscarried. We 

 get all letters forwarded from St Jean de Luz, but yours has not been among them. I am so 

 sorry. We like this place, but having been house-bound by bad weather I have as yet seen little 

 of the neighbourhood. There is a pet here that even you have no experience of, viz. a wild 

 boar, 10 months old, as high as my knee. He is kept mostly shut up, but was let out yesterday 

 for a run. It was the funniest sight conceivable to see his twists and turns and gallops about 

 the field and garden. His tusks are fully 3 inches long, not sharp but formidable looking, 

 and he shakes his head continually as though ripping up at something. He will be dangerous 

 soon. The landlord picked him up quite young on the hills. There are no events here to tell you 

 of. As regards personal matters, I packed off my paper to-day on the " Measurement of 

 Resemblance " to the typist, who is to send one copy to Karl Pearson for his criticism, which 



